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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David S. Soane, Piedmont, CA (US);
Matthew R. Linford, Orem, UT (US);
David A. Offord, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Dan B. Millward, Alameda, CA (US);
William Ware, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nano-Tex, LLC, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/02 ; C08H 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/02 ; C08H 5/04 ;
Abstract
The invention is directed to a hybrid polymer material or system that combines naturally occurring building blocks with synthetic building blocks. The sets of naturally occurring and synthetic building blocks are mixed and joined on a molecular or nanoscopic level to give homogeneous or microphase-separated morphologies to the resulting mixed polymer system. These hybrid polymers combine the comfort attributes of natural materials with the robustness and design properties of synthetic materials.